1. Overview

This article is about to Spring boot request routing example using zuul API. zuul API is used to route request which is specially use for micro service architecture, We can take zuul routing advantages as bellow:

Migration of old service to new service

Redirect specific request to another domain or submain for manage load

Redirect request to specific services means single point of entry in application.

i.e request start with /account redirect account service

i.e request start with /admin redirect to admin service.

Syntax : zuul.routers.[SERVICE_NAE]:[URL_PATTERN]

In bellow example all request /users/* redirect to user service.

zuul:
routes:
users: /users/**

2. Example

Spring boot request routing example

2.1 pom.xml

Zuul API require of group org.springframework.cloud and artifact Id spring-cloud-starter-netflix-zuul in classpath.

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